Open Source Projects

Synfig is a 2D, vector-based "tool for producing feature-film quality animation." It has has buckets of potential but it's been ignored, making it consequently buggy. A little push could easily help Synfig bloom into a really astounding piece of software that even seasoned Flash users would appreciate.

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.

coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS/EFI (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers.

OpenLieroX is an extremely addictive realtime Worms clone. It features online play, fully customizable weapons, levels and characters. Liero's 10+ years history formed a huge community around Liero/LieroX/OpenLieroX.

GNOME is an international effort to build a complete desktop environment—the graphical user interface which sits on top of a computer operating system—entirely from free software. This goal includes creating software development frameworks, selecting application software for the desktop, and working on the programs which manage application launching, file handling, and window and task management.

sK1 is a powerful opensource illustration program for the Linux platform that can substitute professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator. Unique project features are CorelDRAW formats importers, tabbed multidocument interface, Cairo-based engine, color managment etc.

OpenOffice.org is an office application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. It supports the OpenDocument standard for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office '97-2003 formats, among many others.

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. It is a powerful general-purpose editor with a clean, simple interface.

phpMyAdmin is a popular web interface for MySQL. This open source project has gained the trust of host providers worldwide; it is currently available in 54 languages.phpMyAdmin has recently won the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards for "Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins" and "Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquisition".

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

The mission of the Mozilla Project is to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet. We are the producer and provider of the award-winning Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software. We are an advocate for open standards on the Net, and provide tools for developing standard web content. We also provide software development tools used by hundreds of free software projects worldwide.

Posterita is a full WEB POS retail system that handles accounting, stock and inventory management, CRM, fidelity cards, credit sales among many other things.
It can cater for a single shop as well as for entities with multiple sites.
Posterita is platform independent (MAC, Linux, Windows)

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, and more.

Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.

Well known personal information manager for gnome.

ADempiere Business Suite ERP/CRM/MFG/SCM/POS done the Bazaar way in an open and unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community that includes Subject Matter Specialists, Implementors and End-Users. We are a community fork of Compiere.

ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Gallery is an open source project with the goal to develop and support leading photo sharing web application solutions.

OSSEC is a scalable, multi-platform, open source Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). It has a powerful correlation and analysis engine, integrating log analysis, file integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, centralized policy enforcement, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

IPTables is a firewall program.It is a user space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the Netfilter tables, chains, and rules.It can restrict access by port, by IP address, or by the properties of packets.

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and servers. It is based on Debian GNU/Linux. Ubuntu aims to provide an up-to-date yet stable operating system for the average user, and features a strong focus on usability, regular releases, and ease of installation. Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd, owned by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. The name of the distribution comes from the southern African concept of ubuntu which may be rendered roughly as "humanity toward others", "we are people because of other people", or "I am who I am because of who we all are", though other meanings have been suggested. This Linux distribution is named Ubuntu as it is expected to bring the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world. Ubuntu is free software and users can share it among each other.

The Debian project produces a family of Free operating systems. Debian GNU/Linux, its flagship product, sports over 20'000 software packages, and runs on eleven processor architectures. More than 150 other distributions have recognised the Debian system for its stability and quality, and have built their work on it, such as the popular Knoppix and Ubuntu distributions. Debian has no commercial links and is run entirely by volunteers.

Amarok is the music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface. Amarok makes playing the music you love easier than ever before - and looks good doing it.

K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application. It consists of basicly three parts:
1. The projects:
Projects are created from the file menu and then filled with data to burn.
2. The Tools:
The tools menu offers different tools like CD copy or DVD formatting.
3. Context sensitive media actions:
When clicking on the Icon representing a CD/DVD drive K3b will present it\'s contents and allow some further action. This is for example the way to rip audio CDs.

KDE is an international technology team that creates Free Software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE\'s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE4\'s full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X.

Zikula is software that creates an impressive, dynamic web site and provides you with a site you can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a web browser.

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team's established development process and policies.

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

One bug tracker to rule them all!

Cellule is a 2D procedural texture editor licensed under GPL license.

Git is an open source distributed version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency, but just as well suited for small personal repositories; it is especially popular in the open source community, serving as a development platform for projects like the Linux Kernel, WINE, Ruby on Rails or X.org.

Blender is a 3D animation suite with tools for modeling, animation, rendering, as well as video editing and compositing and numerous other capabilities. It can be used for making movies, games, art work, and technical drawings.

PCMan File Manager - Extremly fast and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing, super-fast startup, low resource usage, and user-friendly interface along with desktop icons, mounting volumes via HAL, ...etc. Its low system requirement and modern design make it suitable for low-end devices such as netbooks or embeded systems.

recordMyDesktop is a softpedia award
desktop session recorder for GNU / linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it's primary task. As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way.

A Simple Domain Monitoring Application

Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship. It is completely decentralized (there is no person or computer essential to its operation), meaning that Freenet cannot be attacked like centralized peer-to-peer systems such as Napster. Freenet also employs intelligent routing and caching to learn to route requests more efficiently, automatically mirror popular data, make network flooding almost impossible, and move data to where it is in greatest demand.

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a real time collaboration (RTC) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercially. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.

Squeak is a modern, open source full-featured implementation of the powerful Smalltalk programming language and environment. Squeak is highly-portable and easy to debug, analyze, and change. Squeak is the vehicle for a wide range of projects from multimedia applications like Plopp or Sophie, educational platforms like Etoys (on the XO) or Scratch (used in schools in Informatica08) to commercial web and p2p application development like DabbleDB, CMSBox or Qwaq using open source frameworks like Seaside and OpenCroquet.

A free audio/video editor that Cut, Merge, Convert, Record, and Rip cds.
The current version is still beta, many things will be changed in next versions according to the current version feedback.

Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm radio. Sync your iPod and other devices. We think you\'ll love the new Banshee!

Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.

Asterisk is the world\'s leading open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit. Offering flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary communications, Asterisk empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions...for free.

Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, multi-site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and workflow.

Tango is a cross-platform open-source software library, written in the D programming language for D programmers. It is structured as a cohesive and comprehensive library for general purpose usage.

Silva is a powerful CMS for organizations that manage multiple or complex websites. Content is stored in futureproof XML, independent of logic and presentation, with sophisticated access control and multi-site management. Silva is open source, built on the Zope application server.

Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment - LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It's not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop environments, we don't tightly integrate every component. Instead, we tried to make all components independent, and each of them can be used independently with few dependencies.

OpenTK is a .NET/mono based OpenGL/OpenAL-wrapping game development library, aiming to be an easier-to-use API than Tao (on which it is partially based), while still being low-level enough for full application flexibility.

Spring based Integration Framework using DSLs in Java, XML and Scala

The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX.

Conduit is a synchronization application for GNOME. It allows you to synchronize your files, photos, emails, contacts, notes, calendar data and any other type of personal information and synchronize that data with another computer, an online service, or even another electronic device.

Open Source Enterprise Medical Records System for the developing world.

Ampache is a Web-based Audio file manager. It is implemented with MySQL, and PHP. It allows you to view, edit, and play your audio files via the web. It has support for playlists, artist and album views, album art, random play, playback via Http/On the Fly Transcoding and Downsampling, Vote based playback, Mpd and Icecast, Integrated Flash Player, as well as per user themes and song play tracking. You can also Link multiple Ampache servers togeather using XML-RPC. Ampache supports GETTEXT translations and has a full translation of many languages

Sahana is a FOSS disaster management system, which is being used in many countries, including Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Peru, Pakistan, Bangladesh and some states of USA.

Cinelerra includes many of the features of the pricey professional editors and some extras: real-time visual effects, FireWire input/output, render-farm capability, and even support for HDTV formats and Ogg Vorbis. The downside is that its hardware demands are quite unforgiving; the recommended configuration has a dual 2GHz Athlon system, with 1GB RAM and a 200GB hard drive.

Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.

Nuxeo 5 is an innovative, standards-based, open source platform for building ECM applications. Its component-based and service-oriented architecture makes it easy to customize and extend, making developers more efficient and ultimately, happier.